Editor’s note: If there is one thing that hasn’t worked well for President Goodluck Jonathan, it is the caliber of men and women whom he has appointed in various positions. Mahmud Jega lists out 12 personalities that have further dented president’s personal image and the image of his administration.

Story highlights:

– Obasanjo’s devastating attacks against Jonathan, sometimes through letters, at other times through public lectures have taken a heavy toll.

– Sambo has nothing of the political drive and ambition of, say, Atiku Abubakar.

– The president contributed to his party’s current predicament in three ways.

(Daily Trust) – 1. Alhaji Bamanga Tukur

His disastrous tenure as PDP’s national chairman was the biggest game changer for the PDP from which it might never recover. Bamanga’s tenure also coincided with the period when three major opposition parties were consolidating into one mega opposition party, but the chairman failed to recognise the emerging threat. Instead, he encouraged the Party Leader to settle personal scores within the party. It was a cover for Bamanga to also settle personal scores of his own. He suspended a state governor for refusing to answer his phone call; he watched askance as seven governors formed a faction called ‘the new PDP’ (nPDP), and he didn’t care a hoot when 5 governors jumped ship and joined the APC.

2. Chief Edwin Clark

As soon as Dr. Goodluck Jonathan rose to the presidency, this Gowon-era Information Minister created for himself a position hitherto unknown in Nigerian politics, that of the president’s ethnic godfather. No Yoruba potentate occupied this post during Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s eight year rule and even the feeble President Umaru Yarádua had no such godfather. Rather than use his extra-constitutional position to steady the president’s position, Clark used it to create numerous enemies for Jonathan through his use of intemperate language and regular assaults at dissenting folks.

3. Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke

No one gets to sit atop Nigeria’s oil industry without making many enemies. Mrs Allison Madueke’s beauty, fluent English and polished manners gained for her a lot of mileage, but the sleaze in the oil industry ultimately caught up with her. Most damaging have been the scandalous rip offs in subsidy payments, the botched attempt to remove the oil subsidy in 2012, Sanusi’s allegation of the missing $20 billion and the reported N10 billion spent to hire private jets, not to mention the failure to pass the PIB bill.

4. Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

The first ever Coordinating Minister of the Economy fancies herself as an economic wunderkind at par with the German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer or the Japanese Prime Minister Sato. While most Nigerians thought economic conditions were harsh, Mrs Okonjo-Iweala bandied figures and said it is among the best-managed in the world. This sharp discrepancy between the official claims and people’s feelings did much damage to the administration’s credibility. Nor was there any preparation of the public mind for the steep fall in oil prices, the sharp drop in external reserves and the precipitous decline of the naira.

5. Dame Patience Jonathan

In the last five decades Nigerian First Ladies have often been mired in one controversy or another. Mrs Patience Jonathan however stands in a class of her own by making many gaffes and ill-advised actions that badly affected the public image of her husband’s regime. Worst of them all was her intervention in the Chibok girls’ saga and her futile attempts to prove that her husband’s political enemies orchestrated the whole affair. Her quarrel with Rotimi Amaechi, the governor of her home state, also resulted in PDP’s most impactful loss of a political figure.

6. Mujaheed Dokubo Asari

This ex-militant’s coarse manner, intemperate language and his open threats against whole regions of the country supposedly in Jonathan’s service did much political damage. Asari was later joined by more ex-militant leaders to threaten war against the country should Jonathan lose the election. Their joint threat greatly antagonised non-partisan opinion all over the country.

7. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo

If remarks must be matched to records, this former two-time ruler has no moral authority to criticise anyone but the wily Obasanjo re-launched himself back into the reckoning of Nigerians by spearheading attacks against the Jonathan regime in the last two years. Many people suspect that his motives are ungodly. Yet Obasanjo’s devastating attacks against Jonathan, sometimes through letters, at other times through public lectures have taken a heavy toll. The Jonathan Presidency never quite settled on the best way to tackle Obasanjo. Sometimes it answered his letters; at other times it tried to ignore him and at still other times it sent seven PDP governors to plead with him to keep quiet.

8. Governor Godswill Akpabio

The ambitious Akwa Ibom State governor rapidly moved very close to President Jonathan and soon installed himself as the president’s top gubernatorial enforcer. At one point he went about the task wisely, such as when he talked Bamanga into reversing Governor Aliyu Wamakko’s suspension. Other times he handled matters with very damaging crudity, such as the 16 is greater than 19 affair, which effectively destroyed the Nigeria Governors Forum.

9. Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu

When he replaced Bamanga Tukur as PDP’s chairman, the former Bauchi State governor was proclaimed by his partymen as the game changer. It turned out that he underestimated the fall in PDP’s esteem and total political stature. Even though Mu’azu toured the country trying to lure back members who defected and though he refrained from creating more problems by not trying to settle personal scores, the damage had been done and he was unable to reverse it.

10. Vice President Mohamed Namadi Sambo

Many of Jonathan’s kitchen cabinet members would sit back and say that the Vice President is to blame for failing to stem the tide when the country’s single largest voting bloc, the far North, turned completely against the Jonathan regime. Some northern PDP governors encouraged this belief in the hope of replacing Sambo on the ticket. Sambo has nothing of the political drive and ambition of, say, Atiku Abubakar. His affable and non-controversial nature did not add to the regime’s problems but it did not stave off the decline either.
11. NSA and military service chiefs

The top security chiefs have contributed to President Jonathan and PDP’s problems in only three ways. One was their failure to tame Boko Haram despite repeated claims that they will do so. Second was their timing the operation to end Boko Haram once and for all with the date set for presidential election. The third, final damage inflicted by the service chiefs was their asking for the election to be postponed while they attack Boko Haram.

12. Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

The President contributed to his party’s current predicament in only three ways that I can think of. They are his lack of adequate knowledge about Nigeria, lack of adequate preparation before becoming the president of Nigeria and lack of rapid catching up study when he became the president of Nigeria.

His mistake in choosing Bamanga Tukur; his overreliance on Ngozi, Diezani and Akpabio; his initial misreading of Boko Haram as a political plot; his inability to manage Obasanjo, Edwin Clark, Aminu Tambuwal, nPDP and ex-militants can all be attributed to those three inadequacies.


How can a match be won with 12 players scoring own goals?

http://www.naij.com/386135-12-people-who-ruined-pdp-and-jonathans-adminstration.html


feel free to add other names to the list....with reasons!

where is bas.tard okupe, labaran maku, gulak, metuh and the new recruit fayose and ffk?

gwales:
where is bas.tard okupe, labaran maku, gulak, metuh and the new recruit fayose and ffk?

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PDP dont get too happy, i was referring tO YOU not HIM
he has perfectly classified the scallywags in their respective groups



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gwales:
where is bas.tard okupe, labaran maku, gulak, metuh and the new recruit fayose and ffk?

Op has done justice to the selection of the team.Others are just whistle blowers.For example the like of fani kayode,his primary responsibilty is to attack anything coming from APC.Just like a dog barking inside a cage while hearing somebody knocking at the door of is owner without doing anything.

gwales:
where is bas.tard okupe, labaran maku, gulak, metuh and the new recruit fayose and ffk?

GWALES - God bless U *U will never lack*

These bunch really destroyed GEJ, and the fact that he is paying them to do so really shows he is "clueless"

They said "Too many hands,spoil the cook"

GEJ did a good job of falling out of favor amongst Nigerians drastically within 4 years!

You people should leave gej and mind your businesses..

Okonjo own too much.

Our biz is Nigeria.....if he leaves Aso Rock today well we may consider leaving him alone but as it is today his biz is our biz......his speeches...cough...sneeze, smiles/frown...tears/joy....cluelessness....active/inactivity...is all our business.

fuckerholic:
You people should leave gej and mind your businesses..

Get Ngozi Okonjo Iweala's name out of your dirty, stinky mouth you vile human being. You disgust me *spits on thread*

The people that spoil nigeria are people like you op. Not having a positive mindset of his own country. People like you do not even contribute anything meaningful to our society. Talk is cheap my friend. If you can't find anything good in nigeria, do something good and become good joor.

FYI; this is the first time nigeria has got its bragging rights as the giant of Africa...literally. So smell that finger

liberty300:
Get Ngozi Okonjo Iweala's name out of your dirty, stinky mouth you vile human being. You disgust me *spits on thread*

I will but on one condition.....which is for you or Ngozi Okonjo Iweala herself to respond intelligently to Prof Charles Soludo's epistles seasons 1,2 and 3...SLS missing $20billion allegations.....and explain reason why after selling oil at an all time high for over 5years Nigeria has no savings but debts to show for it....please answer logically and I will remove her name.....

hmmm respond to the article....albeit logically...thank you! is 16 greater than 19 as advocated by Akpabio and supported by GEJ? Is that what you learnt in school? which giant? is it the one that produces 2000MW of power and expects car manufactuurers to relocate to Nigeria! wake up bro!

liberty300:
The people that spoil nigeria are people like you op. Not having a positive mindset of his own country. People like you do not even contribute anything meaningful to our society. Talk is cheap my friend. If you can't find anything good in nigeria, do something good and become good joor.

FYI; this is the first time nigeria has got its bragging rights as the giant of Africa...literally. So smell that finger

GEJ should top thr list. He shot himself in thr foot mostly

if all GEJ's follies were to be recorded ....all Nigerian dailies will not publish anything again for 6months!

usbcable:
GEJ should top thr list. He shot himself in thr foot mostly

praxisnetworks:


I will but on one condition.....which is for you or Ngozi Okonjo Iweala herself to respond intelligently to Prof Charles Soludo's epistles seasons 1,2 and 3...SLS missing $20billion allegations.....and explain reason why after selling oil at an all time high for over 5years Nigeria has no savings but debts to show for it....please answer logically and I will remove her name.....

shut up! She owes no one a reply. If you're seen talking with a mad man, you are labelled a mad man as well. Where was Charles soludo and his epistles when obj promised him anambra state as his reward for service to him? Only when a useless politician is left out of the affairs of nigeria would he deem it fit to criticize..obj, oby, soludo etc are all the same to me..bunch of hypocrites. Leave Okonjo and Allison alone you spineless freaks

liberty300:
shut up! She owes no one a reply. If you're seen talking with a mad man, you are labelled a mad man as well. Where was Charles soludo and his epistles when obj promised him anambra state as his reward for service to him? Only when a useless politician is left out of the affairs of nigeria would he deem it fit to criticize..obj, oby, soludo etc are all the same to me..bunch of hypocrites. Leave Okonjo and Allison alone you spineless freaks

they must explain well well....their biz is my biz...its our collective responsibility to LOOK into their biz!

noted...

1. Alhaji Bamanga Tukur

His disastrous tenure as PDP’s national chairman was the biggest game changer for the PDP from which it might never recover. Bamanga’s tenure also coincided with the period when three major opposition parties were consolidating into one mega opposition party, but the chairman failed to recognise the emerging threat. Instead, he encouraged the Party Leader to settle personal scores within the party. It was a cover for Bamanga to also settle personal scores of his own. He suspended a state governor for refusing to answer his phone call; he watched askance as seven governors formed a faction called ‘the new PDP’ (nPDP), and he didn’t care a hoot when 5 governors jumped ship and joined the APC.

IMO, this is the greatest of all.
The moment PDP lost those 5 governors, all turned sour.
And at the end Tukur was removed, but it was rather too late. So who won afterall?

This to me is GEJ's biggest political mistake as the lost governors wielded so much influence in their respective states, and the 2 who couldn't defect remained disloyal to PDP since that time.

what do u expect frm a clueless man

This is just your hate list. Most of the reasons you gave for them being there are peurile. How is it that Asari/Clarks views are enough to damageJonathan but Ciroma/Yakassai/Junai Mohamed and many other northerners highly provocative views never dent Buharis starture? Buhari even talked about baboons and blood yet he is the champion candidate. So because he is ijaw, any vabal attack from an ijaw becomes a reason for your type to hate him? Is he god? Must he control every mouth? Using that analogy, is Shekaus outbursts not enough to kill buharis candidacy? It is very simple; when you want to hate, you will find a reason to hate.

Forget all the talk about governors jumping ship. Bottomline;GEJ was/is soft. Tukur can deal with any naughty governor, and if GAJ is willing to aggressively back Tukur, the governor will ultimately tow the party line as was the case during Obasanjos regime. Jonathan is just too soft with a very miserable understanding of democratic freedoms vis a vis nigerias politics. That allowed a great deal of political opponents to ride roughshod. Otherwise how can people like Amaechi, Saraki and tinubu be running around moaning about corruption on top of stolen cash?

ephemm:


GWALES - God bless U *U will never lack*

These bunch really destroyed GEJ, and the fact that he is paying them to do so really shows he is "clueless"

clueless, yes!

owobokiri:
This is just your hate list. Most of the reasons you gave for them being there are peurile. How is it that Asari/Clarks views are enough to damageJonathan but Ciroma/Yakassai/Junai Mohamed and many other northerners highly provocative views never dent Buharis starture? Buhari even talked about baboons and blood yet he is the champion candidate. So because he is ijaw, any vabal attack from an ijaw becomes a reason for your type to hate him? Is he god? Must he control every mouth? Using that analogy, is Shekaus outbursts not enough to kill buharis candidacy? It is very simple; when you want to hate, you will find a reason to hate.
Forget all the talk about governors jumping ship. Bottomline;GEJ was/is soft. Tukur can deal with any naughty governor, and if GAJ is willing to aggressively back Tukur, the governor will ultimately tow the party line as was the case during Obasanjos regime. Jonathan is just too soft with a very miserable understanding of democratic freedoms vis a vis nigerias politics. That allowed a great deal of political opponents to ride roughshod. Otherwise how can people like Amaechi, Saraki and tinubu be running around moaning about corruption on top of stolen cash?

wha are you talking about??, this list is on point, these set are the people that made jona loss the respect of many Nigerians. Its just unfortunate that you hv to bring tribal sentiment into a purely political affair.

destinysaid:
wha are you talking about??, this list is on point, these set are the people that made jona loss the respect of many Nigerians. Its just unfortunate that you hv to bring tribal sentiment into a purely political affair.

Gbam!!!